Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

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The Warm Spaces Episode Jun 09, 2023

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The Warm Spaces Episode: The Endless Font of the BBS Documentary, Skills Learned, Spaces Found. A Bowling Alley in Kansas. A Starring Role. Kids Hanging Out, My Very Own Rocky Horror, Plastic and Fabric and Wood. Some thoughts on how I loved being in warm spaces, and how many different rooms, including the one I stream in, try to live up to that. Jim Willing's Interview shots show his now-since-closed-and-opened and multi-owners since bowling alley: https://archive.org/details/20040128-bbs-willing

The Code Grenade Episode Jun 05, 2023

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The Code Grenade Episode: A Lost Summer, A Grey Machine, Zork II, A 13 Year Old Engineer, Modules and Rooms and Graph Paper, The Grenade That Finished Me, A Testimony to Long-Lost Data. When I was very young, I tried to make an Infocom-level Adventure Game. It did not go very well at all.

The Bodged Calculators Episode Jun 02, 2023

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The Bodged Calculators Episode: A Short Conversation, A Machine Lives, Exactly One Person, The Needlessly Complicated Environment, No FAQ, Hacks and Scripts, The Wonder and the Joy, An Apology to the Future. Reflecting the fact that there's really only me for adding new machine emulators to the Internet Archive, in this case, The Calculator Drawer, adding emulated calculators at https://archive.org/details/calculatordrawer - go forth and multiply.

The Ramifications Episode May 29, 2023

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The Ramifications Episode.

A lot of speculation and consideration of the ramifications of algorithmic intensity and synthetic media from someone who has been thinking about the Blorb for a very long time. Listened best without headphones.

The BIG CHUNGUS Episode May 26, 2023

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The BIG CHUNGUS Episode: A Lucky Smart Situation, The Rise of BIG CHUNGUS, 8 Terabytes, Distributions, The Culture of Twitch Videos, A Ride Down The Line, Packs and ROMs, Television and Dumps, A Secret Clubhouse, A Half a Petabyte, The Chungus Among Us, The Closed Future And The Bridgers, A Warm Thermos.

Ruminations of BIG CHUNGUS, my ongoing weird project. Nothing stops the Chungus.

The Storage Reckoning Episode May 22, 2023

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The Storage Reckoning Episode: Putting Off Forever, Final Consolidations, The Big Sort, An Unpassable Box, The Nature of Contents and Archives, The Plans and Possibilities, Where It All Goes, The Lack of Guilt, Advice and Concerns, The Empty Future. Thoughts on finally consolidating down to a single storage unit again, and how maybe, I might finally have a to-do list that will actually shrink instead of grow. Recorded using a temporary method while travelling. Listening on speakers instead of headphones suggested.

The Laptop Loss Episode May 19, 2023

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The Laptop Loss Episode: A Eulogy For a Laptop, Largest and Smallest, A Gift From Above, A Quirkly Little Partner, Memories of the PC Convertible, Suspicious Activity, Presentations and Podiums, Signs of Aging, A Secret Of Hard Drives, The Next Generation. A eulogy for a laptop, brave travel companion, editor of my podcasts, now clearly gone and awaiting one last salvage. Noted in this episode is that I recorded this month's episodes using a different method and setup as I am travelling. Most notably is the lack of a pop screen, which, combined with my proximity to the microphone, makes this slightly tough on headphones. Patreon's scheduling means I can't spend time on surgery to really fix this up syllable by syllable, but I will probably do a bit of work before this goes into the "regular" podcast feed. I'd back on the proper setup for the next month and onwards.

The Remedial College Episode May 15, 2023

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The Remedial College Episode: A Chance to Reboot, Not Quite Rebooted, A Lot of Effort, Boston or Bust, 4.25 Years, Remedial College, 20 Candidates, Roommate Switch, Sketch, Three Teachers, A Couple Suspicious Moments, The Results, The 19 Plus One, A Final Improvement.

A rapidly fading memory of the really odd way I finally got into college.

The Near Miss Episode May 12, 2023

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The Near Miss Episode: A Moment of Glass, The Ever-Returning Concern, Ramificiations, Networks of Interlocking Dependency, Divestment, Discouragement. A Near Miss With a Car, Consolidation, Hopefulness.

Some musings on a very weird phobia (or coping mechanism) I have with regards to near miss tragedy, in this case, some rather unexpected glass.

The Documentary Urge Episode May 08, 2023

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The Documentary Urge Episode: A Fleeting Moment of Weakness, The Three That Made It, The Reasons for a Documentary, The Untold Efforts, The Unattempted Documentary, A Round of Considerations Along a Technical Level, The People Doing What I'd Do, The Things Only I Can Do. A continued reminder about why I stopped making documentaries and why I'm not going to start doing them again.

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